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American Lithographic designated 66 subjects for this intermediate 350/460 series in their last press runs of the SOVEREIGN 350 cards (printing them with "apple green"
backs). Were these 66 subjects printed on one sheet ? Or, were they printed in 2 groups on separate sheets. It appears that the 350/460 subjects were indeed printed in
two stages, as is evident in the mutually-exclusive printing pattern of their 460-type backs. Proof of this is provided here (Group 1), and in the following post (Group 2).

OK....T206 production process first pre-printed sheets of the fronts. Followed by printing the various T-brand backs in response to orders from the Tobacco factory's thru
out the U.S. The T206's were cut from the completed sheets and shipped to their respective factory to be inserted in the cigarette packs. A Federal Law required that the
T-brand advertisement backs identify the Factory # and its District for tax purposes.

1st group of the 350/460 series......35 subjects printed with these four 460-type backs (circa..late 1910 > early 1911).

SWEET CAPORAL 460 Factory 25

SWEET CAPORAL 460 Factory 42

Red HINDU

BROAD LEAF 460


1......Ames (hands over head)
2......Baker
3......Bender (no trees)
4......M. Brown (Chicago)
5......Chance (portrait-yellow)
6......Chase (blue)
7......Chase (dark cap)
8......Cobb (red portrait)
9......Davis (A's)
10....Donlin (bat)
11....Doolan (bat)
12....Dougherty (arm in air)
13....Downey (bat)
14....Larry Doyle (bat)
15....Elberfeld (Washington-fielding)
16....Evers (Chicago-yellow sky)
17....Griffith (bat)
18....Johnson (pitching)
19....Joss (pitching)
20....Kleinow (Boston)
21....Konetchy (glove low)
22....Magee (bat)
23....Mathewson (dark cap)
24....McIntyre (Brooklyn & Chicago)
25....Murphy (batting)
26....O'Leary (hands on knees)
27....Reulbach (no glove)
28....Rucker (throwing)
29....Seymour (throwing)
30....Snodgrass (catching)
31....Stahl (glove)
32....Street (fielding)
33....Sweeney (fielding)
34....Willis (throwing)
35....CYoung (glove)


PIEDMONT 460 Factory #42......The one exception to this mutually-exclusive rule is the PIEDMONT 460 Factory #42 back, which is common to all 63 of these subjects.

Note....Twenty 350/460 series subjects have yet to be confirmed with the LENOX brand. Therefore, I have not included LENOX in this analysis since a discernible pattern
is not quite evident at this time. It's still a work in progress.


The 2nd group of 350/460 subjects continues in the next post here.


TED Z
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